The reason why this works so well, is that the upper part of the Bb9 is D F Ab C, which makes up a Dm7b5 or Fm6 in 1st inversion, and we all know how warm and cuddly this sort of "minor plagal cadence sounds", almost like its hugging the 1 chord, but now we just add a Bb in the bass which moves nicely into the tonic a whole step away.

Thanks for sharing this with us, it's always good to know progressions which sound good despite having an off-key element within them.

Reminds me of the Beatles' Hello Goodbye, where McCartney sings "I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello". Or about 37 ELO songs.

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When the expanded chords would confuse me a tad (back when I was first learning "big chords") I'd think of this as a Bb in the bass with an F min atop it . Hey, whatever works! An 11th chord, for ex. can seem intimidating, but it's a simple major triad atop a bass note a whole step above the triad - in other words: a C 11 is a C in the bass with a Bb triad on top of it. It gave me a way to know big jazzy sounds using 'small' familiar chords. PS: The gorgeous dreamy piano at the end of Clapton's Layla goes to this type change at the end of each chorus...classy & mysterioso.

and thus elton john was made

That CMaj to Fm7 gives me chills every time...I wonder why?

To put this idea in other words you want to create a lot of dissidence like your example did and resolve. This chaotic cord creates a natural urge to hear it resolved giving off a more pleasing feeling when you do resolve the chord.

Found out about this little resolution from New York State of Mind. Love it.

You are such an amazing piano player! Thank you for teaching me so much!!

Layla! You got me on my knees!

your videos make me want to get back into piano. making simple techniques sound so good, can't get enough.

Even though I knew this chord, but you never cease to amuse me with your amazing voicing. Thanks for inspiring me even further!

Thanks ! Very cool. I'm kind of a beginner. As soon as you showed me voicing for the Bb9 chord, I realized that chord was the whole building block for the outro section of "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos - a huge hit in the 1970s. The rest of the chords are simple, but the piece is impossible to play correctly without that exact chord voicing.

Very cool indeed. I would not be surprised if a number of top artists were to contact you to arrange some of their ideas for them. I agree with many other comments that you demonstrate elements found in Lennon & McCartney, Elton John, Carole King and other musical legends. You are truly one of several excellent piano teachers to be found on KZfaq, I am extremely grateful for your postings which give me the enthusiasm I need to sit at the piano and practice.

I know that you won't probably see this... But these progressions were soooo satisfying. Thanks a lot for this. You got a new subscriber

I love the sound you are getting, thank you for sharing with us.

Everyday i get a new video from you that appears in my recommended, its bloody amazing!! Thanks so much for making all these vids

Thanks very much! When I heard this being used in the past, I thought it was a minor 4th (i.e. Fm) resolving to the tonic. So that was only half the story!

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I've always heard this referred to as the 'backdoor progression' in jazz circles.

Something I found out today is that; in a major key chord vi played as chord VI in the parallel minor can bridge a plagal cadence nicely. So C, F, Ab, C.

Sounds like the Layla outro a little bit

I notice that this seems to work because of the common tones between this dom9 and the other popular chord changes, the min4 to major 1, and dim2 to the maj 1. They all share the subdominant and minor sixth scale degree, which tends to make a nice resolve when shifting down a half step to go from one minor third of "tension" to create the aurally pleasing tonic outline a half step down- the third and fifth scale degrees

This chord prog. is a very common prog. In Mexican Bolero...Norteño from the 1930's so much feeling in it.

Yes, I like the sound of that. Thank you for your thoughts.

In C major, this chord is one substitution chord. Bb7/9 is more correctly. Bb D F Ab C. Comes form the Minor scala. 7th of Cm. Or 5th of Eb. Its sonds like a 4th Minor with the bass in Bb (7th) Fm Fm6 Fm7 or like 2th Dm7/5b. You can also use Ab. Ab Ab7M Ab7/5b Ab7/13b. In all this chords I mention, You can add the 9 or the 13. Bb9 don't have 7. When you add a 9 i should say if the 9 suspende the 3th or If it is added with the 3th. In guitar we would understand Bb9 like a Bbsus9 (without the 3th). A famous chord in guitar because is a major chord with the 9 in the place of the 3th. Exemplo: C9 (Csus9) C major: C G C E G C9 or Csus9: C G C D G Vou escrever em português: É um dó maior na segunda posição, shape de A. O acorde fica mais fácil de fazer. Com corda.solta o A9. Campo harmônico de Cm natural. Cm7 Dm7/5b Eb7M Fm7 Gm7 Ab7M Bb7. Então pode-se usar qualquer desses acordes emprestados da tonalidade menor em uma música ocorrendo em uma tonalidade maior, que a sonoridade vai ficar interessante quando ele aparecer de surpresa num momento crucial da música. Já o acorde como Bb add 9, soa interesse porque nele ocorro o som do intervalo musical onde soa ao mesmo tempo a 3th do acorde junto com uma 2th ou 9th. Acorde menor adicionado com nona também é legal. A dissonância do som da intervalo de uma segunda menor ou segunda maior entre a 2th e a 3th causa interesse no som do acorde. Exemplo em C. C add 9 - C G D E G shape de A Posição clássica no violão de C add 9 : C E G D G (ou E) But congratulations with this classes of piano or keyboards, Very interesting. It is helping me a Lot. Thank you sir.

Incredible. Enchanting my world.

A prime example of this is Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful."

It’s also used in the song “You Are So Beautiful” as well.

Great tutorial! I love the fill you play in the last few seconds of the video, could you please make a tutorial on this kind of fills? Thanks :)

love your videos as you make them so simple. just one thing, can you make a video on what is your daily practice routine? i figured my practice hardly payoff as I don't know how to practice piano improvisation.

Bb9, an interesting chord, honestly never thought of using. Thank you for sharing.

That chord progression C - Fm9 - Bb9 - C gave me the feeling of sailing in uncharted waters.. it was a strange feeling

Best example of this is in Still Crazy after All These years

3:22-3:24 Country thirds. Nice runs Elton uses a lot

Very "Layla"-like. Beautiful.

I think this works well because bvii9 creates an unexpected tension, and this tension is released as soon as you get back to the home chord, it's kind of reassuring. But nice trick !

Nice transition. Puts me in mind of 'You Are So Beautiful'. Fascinating run at just about 3:23, but you played it so fast I couldn't follow it. Sounded kind of syncopated and very cool. Would love if you could do a video just on that at some point :-)

great one! thanks for sharing these. I always look forward to them.

This sounds very lovely! :)

This has a very similar sound to a minor iv chord to I chord resolution, but sounds a little brighter. It makes sense because the bVII7 chord shares many notes with the minor iv chord.

nice ;) at 1:48 chord examples in your text is RH, B F Ab C, B is wrong.. D is correct , = D F Ab C :)

can you give us a tutorial about how to play intros and endings with a cool patterns? thanks. you have great tutorials

This is nice! thanks for sharing these awesome techniques!

Beautiful :) Could you make some videos like this (off-key chord progressions) except in a minor scale?

What a nice harmony i love it 9 chords is very beautiful Thanks. Your chanell is one of the best chanel about music theory and harmony

So THIS is what Jeff Buckley heard about...

Excellent! Thank you so much for your tutorials, they are really nice and informative.

These videos are so informative, thank you.

Gorgeous. So infused with optimism.

Layla. Some very useful stuff here....thx

I think of this when I'm playing as a minor 6th on the IV chord too. So in this case Fm6. Kind of operates the same as a Bb9.

i somehow added an A note to a C minor scale, and it sounded nice.

3:03 It's funny because this afternoon I just happened to read an article about different things to do to a 2-51 progression, and one of the things was to take the 2 and 5 chord and take them up a minor third...so Dm-G7-C becomes Fm-Bb7-C...and that's what he does here!

I love how all of these legitimate acts are being mentioned in the comment section. Goes to show how dumbed down today's boring pop music has become - ain't seeing none of them here!

That is so gorgeous man Thank you so much

Reminds my of "my life" by the Beatles but of course that song is in A

U have a new subscriber......great job. I am using ur tutorials for my own "compositions". 100% Usefull. Thanks!

impressive....I had never thought of this before

Wow deffnitely learn something special today

I LOVE tricks like these! more more moar!

Brilliant. Very inspiring! Thank you for sharing

Imagine all the people..

Two questions please.. .1.what do you play between two chords to make the as connected piece.2. any chance to play slowly what you play at 3:21 to the end of this video.. Thanks to best piaino teacher

I like this tutorial- thank you 👍

Thank you for reminding me of backdoor 2-5 here. The IV and/or iv - bVII7 - I is indeed a backdoor 2-5. But the II9 - bVII7 - I, i dont know what progression it is called. Anyways thankyou again❤️🙏

Beautiful

Amazing video, thank you

Ohh I see you got a nice Dm7b5 going on here

Just great!! Thanks!

amazing progression - insiring and evocative do you have any other tricks like this

i really dont get it ...who would dislike this.....thank you very much

that was beautiful

hallo Mangold thats is what i will learning thank you ferry much for this ldemonstration

Its just the backdoor dominant dominant of the relative minor pretty obvious no secret it is a good sound to pull you cab also use all the chords in c minor and some from f minor to possibly all

Thank you, very cool 9th’s. I think I hear some John Lennon Or Beatles maybe?

cool vid you ply beautifully

Ear candy! Minor correction and one question: The correction is that your text identifying the notes in a Bb9 chord does't jibe with what you're actually playing. There is no B natural in the chord; I believe you meant to write "D". The question has to do with why certain chord inversions work best with certain other inversions. (You state something along these lines at 2:37 in the vid.) Can you shed any light on these pairings and why they work? Thanks.

That is interesting. The Beatles used Bb it a lot as a "surprise" chord

That really is a cool trick!

i am a guitar player but damn that was a really cool lesson. ill be bach for more

Nice.. thanks for sharing

Mangold: could you please teach us the techniques to use when we take chords off the scale. For example taking parallel minor scale chords for a major scale. I would be very thankful 😊

Replace the f with an e in the Bb9 dominant chord and it sounds more jazzy. I think that would be a Bb9dim4. :-)

So good!!

Sounds a bit like Clapton's "Layla".

Thank you for this video. You said there would be a link in the description to the video to the video where you teach how to build the 9th chord....? I'm sorry, but I'm not seeing it.

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This is the progression from "you are so beautiful to me"

This would be a variation of the minor 4th resolution? So you can play Fm, Dm7b5 (which is Fm with D in the bass), or Bb9 (which is Dm7b5 with Bb in the bass). I guess you could use Bdim7 as well?

Your lessons are very good Mangold! Congratulations for that! Do you have any kind of chord progressions using minors or suspended or even quartal chords? Thank you very much.

Gamma cadence boi

Thank you for your lessons very much!!! Question... When I see videos with masters like you I notice that you very quickly find exact notes of different complex chords. At such moments I always stop the video and try to identify playing chords by myself. And so that I always think that masters like you do not construct all these chords, you already know them in given exact key. So the question is... What a "good piano player" has to memorize as an "exact fact" (for e.g. exact keys of a chord in exact key) and what has to memorize as a "formula"???

Can you give a comping tutorial what you’re doing rhythmically

Am i right if I say that you used chords that you borrowed from other keys that are not C major but in in which the C major chord belongs ? (Fm7 -> Fm key, D7 -> G key, Bb9 -> Eb key which has a Cm and is also somewhat related)

that's just the final chord in 'Layla'

It may be a big off topic, but I might as well ask. I'm a guitarist, I've been playing for almost a decade. I recently started songwriting and I ended up feeling limited by the way I can accompany myself on a guitar compared to what it's possible to do in a piano. So I picked it up. I can play simple patterns such as Hey Jude and Imagine. But I'd really like to be able to play in the style of Elton John or like you play in this video. Do you have any suggestions? What songs and exercises should I learn, knowing that my level is still pretty low? Thanks

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Just wondering, isn't this the borrowed and extended VIIb7 from the parallel minor key? Of course, it sounds great. Good to know you can exchange a regular V or V7 against it.